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VOLUME 85, NUMBER 40
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By GARY STEWART
Editor
same everywhere he’s been.
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in Kings Mountain somewhat
different.
For most of his 16 years in the
ministry, he has served in two-
church fields, leading two con-
gregations who because of
smallness of number or other cir-
cumstances could not afford a
full-time minister of its own.
So, coming to the 300-member
Kings Mountain church has
allowed him to catch his breath
for a moment.
“As I told some of our
members, when I come to
church on Sunday I feel like I've
forgotten to do something,” he
says. “I enjoyed the two-church
fields but I'm enjoying Kings
‘Mountain too.”
Faust came to Kings Moun-
tain last month after serving for
eight years at the Walhalla (S.C.)
Presbyterian Church. He’s also
pastored churches in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, - Canada, War-
fordsburg, Pa. and Concord,
N.C.
Faust grew up in Salisbury,
where he graduated from
Boyden High School. He attend-
ed N.C. State University and
Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond, Va.
“sylvania. and one in Maryland.
The city of Warfordsburg strad-
dled the Pennsylvania-Maryland
line. In Walhalla, his pastorate
Eric Faust, the new pastor of
First Presbyterian Church in
Kings Mountain, has pastored:
churches in the north, south and
even out of the country, and he’s
found people to be basically the
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1982
Rev. Faust
Enjoying KM
was not classified as a two-
church field but each Sunday
morning he preached a 9:30 ser-
vice in a chapel which was an of-
fspring of the Walhalla church.
The son of the Rev. Milton
Faust, a Presbyterian minister
and now retired chaplain of the
V_.A. Hospital in Salisbury, Rev.
Faust more or less grew up in the
ministry. He didn’t experience a
dramatic “calling.”
“My decision was simply a
matter of doors being opened for
me,” he says. “Things seemed
right. All my life I’ve found that
I could make decisions and still
be at peace inside and I’ve claim-
ed that as God’s direction for
me. My life has always been the
quite kind of guiding from God
and my having to listen to his
direction.”
Rev. Faust’s interests outside
the church include Cub Scouts,
soccer, serving public libraries,
rose gardening, ham radio, and
civic work. “I’ve also chased
some golf balls across the field
and tennis balls over the fence,”
he says. “I’m always adding in-
gredients to my soup of life.”
He and his wife, Linda, whom .
he met while in seminary, have
three children, including
13-year-old Andrew, an eighth
grader at Kings Mountain
Junior High, 11-year-old Bethan,
a sixth grader at Central, and
5Ys-year-old James, who is in
kindergarten at North.
“We are very pleased with the
: warm and ¢ open to our being here
and we’re very thankful for that.
The town is a very open and
friendly place. Everywhere I've
gone I’ve met nice people.”
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
NEW PASTOR - Rev. Eric Faust is the new pastor at First
Presbyterian Church in Kings Mountain. Rev. Faust came here
in August from Walhalla, S.C., Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Faust said he doesn’t set
mission and
plore its precise target for mis-
sion and caring.
“Pve found people are basical-
ly the same everywhere,” he
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went on. “There are certain
areas that have different at-
- titudes, but I have perceived a
positive ‘attitude here, both in
the town and in the church.
There’s a certain personal
warmth that you find in a small
town that you just don’t find in
the big city. I enjoy that.”
Mountaineer Days Week Away
The city is just one week away
from its celebration of Moun-
taineer Days and thus far only a
few persons have signed up for
the Revolutionary War costume
contest.
Mountaineer Days are
scheduled for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, October 7, 8, and
9.
The event, sponsored by the
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment and Merchants Associa-
tion, is being held to draw atten-
tion to the Toys For Tots pro-
gram, which each year at
Christmas time provides toys for
needy children in the area.
There is no admission to any
of the Mountaineer Days events,
but donations will be taken for
the Toys For Tots program and
concessions will be sold with all
proceeds going to Toys For Tots.
A craft fair has been added to
the list of activities. It will be
held on Sat., Oct. 9 at the Na-
tional Guard Armory from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m. Anyone
wishing to enter may contact
Denise Falls at the Back Porch,
739-8835 or 739-1242. Booths
are available free of charge.
Items already listed to be
shown include adoptable dolls,
wood crafts, stenciling,
macrame, silk and dried ar-
rangements, ceramics, told pain-
ting, quilting, cross-stitch, craft
ribbons and sewn items.
Concessions will be sold by
the Kings Mountain Fire
Department. The fire depart-
ment also urges persons with old
toys to donate to bring them to
the fair. A member of the fire
department will be there to col-
lect the toys.
The costume contest is
scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at
the corner of Mountain and
Cherokee Streets. A fireman will
also be on hand that night to col-
lect toys.
Any persons interested in
entering the costume contest
may contact the fire department
at 739-2552.
Entertainment on Thursday
night will be provided by the
“Lincoln County Pardners”, a
bluegrass group which played
recently at the World’s Fair.
Mayor John Moss will also give
a talk on the founding of Kings
Mountain.
The highlight of Friday’s ac-
tivities will be the annual Kings
Mountain High School
homecoming parade during the
afternoon and the homecoming
game that night against North
Gaston’s Wildcats.
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Street Will
Remain Op
The City Board of Commis-
sioners Monday night denied a
request by realtor Warren
Reynolds to close Webb Street.
Webb Street is a 125-feet long
street near East School.
Reynolds and Mrs. Janet Ballard
are the only property owners on
the street.
Reynolds, who owns two
houses on the street, said the
street now dead ends into the
new Highway 74 bypass and
would no longer be of any
benefit to anyone. He said he
hoped to move the houses and
later put a business there.
He said he had talked to Mrs.
Ballard about his idea “and she
had no objection at all.”
But Mrs. Ballard and two
other women who live nearby
spoke in opposition of Reynolds’
request. Mrs. Ballard said closing
the street would cut off the back
entrance to her property and
would hurt its value. Martha
Smith, who lives at the corner of
Cleveland Avenue and Wood-
side Drive, and Alice Carpenter
of 526 Cleveland Avenue both
objected because of traffic pro-
blems a business might create.
“When I talked to Mr.
Reynolds, I told him if he was
going to jam houses against my
lot I would protest it,” Mrs.
Ballard said. “The state has fenc-
ed us out and the only entrance
to the back of my property is at
the south end of Webb Street.”
Mrs. Ballard, who owns a
75-foot lot, said closing the street
would also hurt the value of her
property and could possibly
cause drainage and sewage pro-
blems.
“Closing the street would hurt
me more than anyone else,” Mrs.
Ballard said. “The school (staff)
parks there and there’s not much
room. It’s such a short street, I
can’t see why it would hurt
anybody to leave it open.”
Reynolds pointed out that if
the street were closed, by state
law Mrs. Ballard, as one of only
two property owners on the
street, would receive half the
street (to the center line of the
road) and that would give her ac-
cess to the back of her property.
“But if there’s a business going
there, I'm opposed to it too,” said
Mrs. Smith. I can’t get out into
the street now because of the
traffic. We have enough traffic
there already.”
Commissioner Jim Childers
said the possibility of a larger
traffic flow concerned him also.
“I just wonder what kind of ad-
ditional traffic we would be
creating around the school,” he
said.
“None,” Reynolds replied.
“I’m not asking for re-zoning. Of
course, when the new highway
opens, we would expect some
off-highway traffic, but that’s
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not going to affect anyone living
on the right side of Cleveland
Avenue. The state has put a
fence up against the property
already. It would look better if
the houses weren’t there.”
In reply to a question by Com-
missioner Norman King, City
Public Works Foreman Walt
Ollis said there are some sewer
lines and water lines on Webb
Street and suggested that the city
retain utility rights on the street
if it voted to close it.
City Attorney George
Thomasson said the city would
have to maintain a utility ease-
ment to get to the sewer and
water lines.
“If we close the street, would
we have ingress and egress for
sanitation?”, Childers asked
Thomasson.
“It would be a dead end from
Lynn Street to the State
Highway,” Thomasson said.
“The city would have no ingress
and egress. Except for the ease-
ment, it would be private proper-
ty. »
King made the motion to deny
Reynolds’ request and Childers
seconded. It passed unanimous-
ly.
In other action Monday night,
the board:
* Authorized re-advertisement
for bids on police cars after
receiving only two bids. The
bids—by Wade Ford and Tedder
Motor Company-will remain
sealed until others are received.
*Awarded a bid to Testa
Chevrolet for a car for the aging
program. Testa’s bid for a new
Chevette hatchback was
$6,015.98. The aging depart-
ment will pay $4,070 and the ci-
ty $1,945. °
*Received three bids for a
container truck for the sanita-
tion department.
*Was told by Thomasson that
he had checked the city or-
dinances on the appointment of
committees and Section 2-56 of
the ordinance reads: “All com-
mittees shall, unless otherwise
ordered, be appointed by the
mayor. All reports of committees
shall be reduced to writing, when
so required by the mayor or any
two commissioners. Commit-
teemen shall receive such com-
pensation for extra and special
service as the 'board may
designate.”
Bloodmobile
To Visit
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in Kings Mountain Oc-
tober 4 for the annual
community-industrial visit.
Hours of the visit will be 11:30
a.m. until 5 p.m. at First Baptist
Church. Collection goal is 150
pints.
United Way Offers ‘Wider Opportunities’
One of the many rewards and
exciting aspects of remaining in
the Girls Scout program through
Junior High and Senior High
School is that older Girl Scouts
become eligible to apply for uni-
que experiences called “Wider
Opportunities.” A Wider Oppor-
tunity is one of many events held
nationally or internationally
each summer by various Girl
Scout councils which are all a
part of the vast G.S.U.S.A. Each
of the opportunities has a par-
ticular theme, is a minimum of
two years in the planning, and is
designed to teach girls to grow
and learn and experience as
much as possible about a par-
ticular endeavor or a section of
the country.
Three Girl Scouts from Kings
Mountain, Crystal Bolin, Dian-
na Chaffee, and Mary Starnes,
were chosen for Wider Oppor-
tunities this past summer.
Through the support and |
guidance of Pioneer Girl Scout
Council, a United Way Agency,
and the local Girl Scout Service
Unit, King-City-Grove, the girls
journeyed across the United
States to Wyoming and to upper
Michigan and into Canada.
Crystal, whose parents are
Richard and: Sheila Bolin, ex-
perienced with excitement her
first airplane ride traveling to the
event called “Where the Glaciers
Roamed” in Michigan. Crystal
explained that all of the girls
who attended were called
“Roamers” and rightfully so
since they journeyed over one of
the early routes into North
America by sailing on Little
Traverse Yibay, biking on
Mackinac Island and venturing
into the wilds of Canada via
railroad. A particular thrill for
Crystal was driving a one-man
motor-powered boat on Lake
Michigan in addition to the
special treat of her first “trip out
of his country” into Canada. She
is already looking forward to a
“Reunion of the Roamers” in ten
years when all of this summer’s
plan to get together again in
Michigan. Crystal and her
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parents agree that being at the
Opportunity gave her a lot of
confidence in herself and that
she really learned how to
manage time.
Diana and Mary flew in the
same distant state, Wyoming,
but at different times and to dif-
ferent Opportunities. Diana,
who is the daughter of James
and Barbara Chaffee, attended
“Saddle Straddle” at Girl Scout
National Center West in Ten
Sleep. Girls from all over the
United States who were ex-
perienced riders and campers
saw the ‘vast panorama of the
west astride horses which were
“theirs” for the duration of the
event. Diana feels that not only
was she able to sharpen her
equestrian skills preparing for
and riding on an extended pack
trip, but that she really learned a
lot about herself as well as other
people while on the trail. “Gain-
ing independence and becoming
more self-assured were the major
assets of the trip,” according to
Diana who also enjoyed meeting
and learning about girls her own
age from so many distant states.
Both Crystal and Diana are
members of Cadette Girl Scout
Troop 4.
Mary, daughter of Donald
and Barbara Starnes, par-
ticipated in an entirely different
event called “Wildlife Tales and
Trails,” also at National Center
West in Wyoming. She and
Pioneer Girl Scout Council Field
Director Suzanne Simmons were
part of a girlAadult partnership
that learned about wildlife
management, field studies of
plants and animals, and outdoor
education techniques. For two
weeks Mary explored canyons,
caves, streams and mesas on
hikes, horseback rides and
backpacking trips. She learned
about the critical choices which
need to be made to save this na-
tion’s wildlife heritage. Mary, a
member of Girl Scout Senior
Troop 200, has made a commit-
ment to Pioneer Council, her
sponsor for the trip, to share the
knowledge which she gained
through presentation to civic
and Scout groups. As she learn-
ed, “There is very little respect
for the wilderness in which all
predatory habits evolved...and
there is no security for any
creaturey left on earth when
man declines to let it live in
peace.”
These three girls and their
families have experienced uni-
que happenings and obvious
growth because of the support of
the United Way which enables
all of Pioneer Girl Scout Coun-
cil’s programs to expand to meet
the needs of today’s girl as she
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faces the complexities of the
ever-changing society.
The Pioneer Girl Scout Coun-
cil is one of the agencies which
benefit from the Kings Moun-
tain United Way campaign,
which is underway now. The
goal of this year’s drive is
$66,000.
Girl’ Scouts will receive
$7,000. Other agencies to receive
funds include American Red
Cross, $13,000; Piedmont Coun-
cil Boy Scouts, $6,200; Grover
Rescue Squad, $5,000; Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad,
$5,000; Cleveland County
Shelter Home, $5,000; Kings
Mountain Ministerial Associa-
tion Helping Hand Fund,
$10,000; Ministerial Association
Chaplain, $1,000; CODAP
$2,500; Salvation Army, $2,000;
Mental Health Association. in
Cleveland County, $1,000;
Kings Mountain Boys Club,
$1,000; and North Carolina
United Way, $5,857.
By 3 Arata mit py hy
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